For example, he states that "there are many reasons to think that price increases condemned as gouging are morally innocent at worse and, more often, create a positive and praiseworthy benefit for all concerned" (277).

Instead, price gouging laws appear more akin to laws banning the sale of horse meat for human consumption, "Blue laws" that prevent the sale of certain items on Sunday, or laws that once prohibited interracial marriage.

The price gouging restriction would apply during any declared state of emergency in Pennsylvania, prohibiting a price increase of more than 20% above the average prices observed during the week prior to the emergency.

It's the heaviest punishment handed out for gouging since Colomiers prop Richard Nones was banned for two years following an incident in a Heineken match against Pontypridd at Sardis Road in November 1999.

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